La place des middle managers dans la démarche stratégique a souvent été soulignée par la littérature stratégique (Bower, 1970 ; Burgelman 1983 ; Mintzberg 1994, Laroche 1999). Cependant, rares sont les études ayant tenté d’approfondir les caractéristiques et les déterminants de leur...

This article presents a research on the use of e-mail in the hierarchical control relationship. Three characteristics of this NTIC (quasi contract, large diffusion and conviviality) explain the fact that e-mail is used as a supervision tool by managers and a means for the subordinates to signal...

Purpose – This paper investigates how Information Systems (IS) researchers apply institutional theoretical frameworks. The purpose of this paper is to explore the operationalization of meta-theoretical frameworks for empirical research which can often present difficulties in IS research. The...